Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in AmericaOne of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom. |
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... political acts that in their time and place were perilously contingent , more gamble than sure thing . " -The Washington Post " New research , new perspectives , new questions and new answers to old questions about this complex and ...
... political acts that in their time and place were perilously contingent , more gamble than sure thing . " -The Washington Post " New research , new perspectives , new questions and new answers to old questions about this complex and ...
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... political economy , that no people can be free who themselves do not constitute an essential part of the ruling element of the country in which they live .... The liberty of no man is secure , who controls not his own political destiny ...
... political economy , that no people can be free who themselves do not constitute an essential part of the ruling element of the country in which they live .... The liberty of no man is secure , who controls not his own political destiny ...
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... Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ( 1948 ) . A onetime member of the circle of American Marxist intellectuals around Partisan Review , Hofstadter repudiated the traditional Progressive view of American political history as a ...
... Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ( 1948 ) . A onetime member of the circle of American Marxist intellectuals around Partisan Review , Hofstadter repudiated the traditional Progressive view of American political history as a ...
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... political virtues for Lincoln, and for his Proclamation, was prudence. Prudence carries with it today the connotation of “prude”—a person of exaggerated caution, bland temperance, hesitation, a lack of imagination and will, fearfulness ...
... political virtues for Lincoln, and for his Proclamation, was prudence. Prudence carries with it today the connotation of “prude”—a person of exaggerated caution, bland temperance, hesitation, a lack of imagination and will, fearfulness ...
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... political greatness in “ prudence , wisdom , perseverance , ” since prudence would “ guard the passions of ... politics involved the rule of prudence , and " obeying the dictates of prudence " was as important for Lincoln as obeying ...
... political greatness in “ prudence , wisdom , perseverance , ” since prudence would “ guard the passions of ... politics involved the rule of prudence , and " obeying the dictates of prudence " was as important for Lincoln as obeying ...
Contents
1822 | |
1834 | |
The President will Rise | 8 |
Three | 17 |
An Instrument in Gods Hands | 9 |
The Mighty | 73 |
Five | 27 |
Fame Takes him by the Hand | 71 |
Postscript | 1849 |
Notes | |
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo Limited preview - 2004 |
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo Limited preview - 2005 |
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